March 31, 2010

Tazawa Might Need Elbow Surgery

There are reports that the team has offered Josh Beckett a four-year contract extension. Beckett made his final start of the spring on Monday night against Tampa Bay (6-6-3-1-8, 94). He finished camp with 17 strikeouts in his last 11 innings.

“It was just tough out there for me, the whole setting, getting ready to pitch,” Papelbon said. “Personally for me it was like throwing live BP. I still got great work in. ... You deal with a different way of life down here, man. It was like I was pitching in Zombieland. It was different and then the first two guys I faced I don't think their combined height was 6 feet. How am I supposed to throw a strike to these dudes?”